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March 11 - Dr. Wenfei Tong - Bird Love
Join The Parrot Club on Tuesday, March 11 at 7 pm ET for a talk by Dr. Wenfei Tong about bird love and the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world. Birds exhibit a wide array of behaviors, from sabotaging budding romances to outsourcing childcare duties. Why do they behave as they do? Using diverse examples (including parrots) from around the world, Dr. Wenfei Tong will present vignettes about the private lives of birds in an evolutionary context to show the science behind how much humans and birds have in common. She will discuss stories from her books Bird Love and Understanding Bird Behavior and illustrate the talk with her art and photographs.

Dr. Wenfei Tong is a biologist with a passion for understanding and conserving the natural world. She enjoys sharing her love of birds and biology through her paintings, photography, teaching, and writing. Her delightful books Bird Love and Understanding Bird Behavior use scientific discoveries to show how much humans and birds share, including some of literature’s most basic themes. Her ultimate aim is to inspire as many people as possible to care for and thus protect nature. She grew up in Singapore, where she started birding at age 12. She first got hooked on field biology as an undergraduate at Princeton and Oxford and has a PhD in evolutionary biology from Harvard. She has guided natural history tours in Tanzania, the Galapagos, and Montana, where she is active in the conservation community and takes visitors birding on horseback. She now works at the Cornel Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY. Find out more at https://www.wenfeitong.com.

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Organization Profile

The Parrot Club is a non-profit organization founded in 1974 by a group of people interested in spreading the fun and enjoyment of exotic birds. The Parrot Club meets mostly online over Zoom, so we welcome people from around the world to join us! We do have occasional social events in person. Most meetings are recorded and posted to our YouTube channel, though some are available to members only. Check out our past programs.

Our Mission

Our mission includes enhancing the knowledge and enjoyment of exotic birds for our members, encouraging preservation and conservation of all avian species, and introducing the general public to the joys and responsibilities of keeping and caring for companion birds..

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